AN: A few ideas that wouldn't go away led me back to this one

The ring had returned to him in his time of need, and with it came the memories of his past.

Revan had known that the Sith were not an enemy to be taken lightly, and he knew that while the Lantern held the power to defeat them, it could not stop the cycle that had managed to set it up in the galaxy.

The Corps had left this area of space, the ring gone dormant for thousands of years when he'd uncovered it.

Unless he went to them for help, there would be no aid from Oa.

And this mess of his was one that he needed to fix before the desire to take that path would be doable to start with.

Alek hadn't known about the ring, just that there was something that had changed after he had hidden it away.

Had he been so naive then that he couldn't see his closest friends heart then?

And Malak was still out there...

Was his will strong enough to face a man he once called brother? Would it fail if he tried to fix that one mistake? Could he kill someone who part of him still saw as family?

All the question were things that he had to face, the code was more than what he had followed as a Jedi or a Sith.

It was an oath that he knew had to be taken in its entirety or it would be meaningless.

Alek had lost himself in the power, letting evil flourish even before his final betrayal.

But he should have seen what his own choices had led to, he had used the Sith as a way to try guiding the Republic to get ready for those still coming. But he had forgotten the meaning of the world in his quest, people knew what the Sith were and he had led his own people into using that name that they would end up emulating.

But he also saw the failings of the Jedi.

For thousands of years they had stood as the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, something that the Mandalorian Wars had shown him that they failed at.

Sunrider and her generation had put their hearts and souls into what they believed, and fought for those ideals. But it had cost them much as the Jedi sought to prevent any other from falling by giving up that which made them part of the people.

The old code still rang true in his heart even as his oath guided him.

But he could feel it in his bones, the light of the Order was diminished by hiding and this war made it impossible to hide it any longer. They had to burn bright or the darkness would take them, perhaps he had managed to do as he intended anyway as the young gained their first real taste of the galaxy

And while the rage of his Sith burned bright, it was not a resilient flame and they to might learn from this.

The galaxy was in flames around him, and while painful this might be the cleansing fire they needed.

So much lost and yet so much that can be gained.

Now, he was the only Lantern of the sector and he had a job to do.